CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto September 28, 2021 13:49:00
A little bit about that issue of time. the reason our troops were able to get there so quickly is because we planned for just such a contingency. we began thinking about the possibilities of a noncombatant evacuation as far back as this spring. indeed, by late april two weeks after the president's decision military planners had crafted a number of evacuations scenarios. in mid-may i ordered central command to make preparations for potential neo. two weeks later i began prepositioning forces in the region to include three infantry battalions. on the 10th of august we ran another tabletop exerci...